Bowe Bergdahl May Be Entitled to $300K in Back Pay, Benefits

Bowe Bergdahl, left, leaves the Fort Bragg courtroom facility following sentencing at Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. The former Sergeant was spared any prison time and received a dishonorable discharge. Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

November 9, 2017

OAN Newsroom

Disgraced former Soldier Bowe Bergdahl may still be able to collect as mush as $300,000 in back pay and benefits from his time spent in captivity with the Taliban.

On Thursday, the U.S. Army said it is deciding whether he should be considered a “prisoner of war” for which he would be compensated for.

However, back in October the 31-year-old pleaded guilty to desertion prior to being captured by the Taliban in 2009.

Earlier this month, Bergdahl was dishonorably discharged and escaped prison time, a ruling President Trump called a quote — “complete and total disgrace.”

“So we get a traitor named Bergdahl a dirty rotten traitor… who by the way when he deserted, six young beautiful people were killed trying to find him, right?” The president asked. “And you don’t even hear about them anymore.”

Officials say there is a chance Bergdahl may not be eligible for back pay, and could even owe money to the military pending the Army’s decision.

POW my DemoRAT! He was a traitorous deserter that caused harm to his fellow soldiers and he SHOULD be in lowest level of Leavenworth till he dies. Officers like his judge should be purged from the military as he is unfit to lead men. He could be a great Girl Scout leader however.

No matter how undeserving he may be if the law says he is entitled to these monies then he must be paid. Has the General, who decides the matter, ruled on whether the judge’s decision will be accepted?

This is what happens when liberal ideologues, like the presiding judge who sentenced him, run things. Soldiers who served well are either dead or at home, and this guy will be laughing at them all the way to the bank. How warped things have gotten.

So this is how America’s LIBERAL all volunteer military service works today?

An individual can volunteer and when they don’t like or want to question their assigned duties, where ever it may occur; they un-volunteer?

At the same time, this un-volunteer individual goes about handing out secrets to the enemy, or abandons their assigned guard post (endangering or causing death to their fellow service members,) or destroys the good order and morale of their unit thru their individual actions.

Meantime, our Military leadership and its legal system, along with the LIBERAL SWAMP RAT POLITICIANS, find these individual actions totally acceptable.

Beyond acceptable, these liberal swamp rat government politicians and liberal military leaders want to ensure this un-volunteer gets paid for their sex changes or anything else this TRAITOR thinks they deserve, along with BACK PAY for their less than HONORABLE efforts!

American has come to expect this kind of STUPIDITY from elected swamp rat politicians, but NEVER from the very Senior Military Leadership & UCMJ that every service member swears to protect & uphold while protecting “America from its enemies, both foreign & domestic.

Now that this legally accepted behavior has precedence, it allows each military service member to randomly decide when they will be “taking a knee” as part of their volunteer service.

In this dawg’s opinion, the ONLY thing Bergdahl should be “entitled to” is a life sentence and/or a noose. He clearly was/is a traitor to his Country; whose willful cowardly actions cost the lives of 6 American Soldiers.
George Washington would have personally put this loser out of his misery.

I read that there is one General in the Army criminal justice system that can reverse the verdict or something to that effect. DOD needs to lean on that officer and make it happen. HE’s a deserter plain and simple. Stupid for that matter; let’s see, hmmm, even thought you don’t agree with your commanders, you have the enemy out there somewhere, and you have numbers on your side, common sense says to stick it out where there is strength in numbers.

Can we label the Trumps and Clintons who got out of the draft “deserters”? Did we label all the men who went to Canada “deserters”? How about all the able bodied men who never enlisted during Iraq and so forth are they “deserters”?

One of the largest ‘black eyes’ and DISGRACE the Army has every had to deal with thanks to a liberal judge.

This man should have been shot for his ‘actions in the face of the enemy’ and costing the lives of innocent troops that lost their lives trying to find a DESERTER whom leadership thought he had been captured by the enemy!

I read a story about Slovik. He was the example for deserters. Not another shot after Slovik. I believe Bergdahl should have spent at least the rest of his life in prison. That wouldn’t even start to pay for the men that died looking for his deserter @$$.

If i was the family of the 6 that were killed looking for this scum, i would sue him. This is bull crap that he may get that kind of money for desertion! If that is the case, how many more will want to desert the military!

What he really deserves I can’t say here in a public forum, but suffice it to say he has the blood of 6 better men than he will ever be on his hands for the rest of his miserable existence, let alone the suffering of the others who ended up crippled for life for going on those missions looking for him.

“So we get a traitor named Bergdahl a dirty rotten traitor… who by the way when he deserted, six young beautiful people were killed trying to find him, right?” The president asked. “And you don’t even hear about them anymore.”

Feel however you want to about the President, but I applaud the way he has the guts to say it the way most of America wants it to be said.

He dodged the firing squad, he dodged time in Leavenworth, He was responsible for the death of many other soldiers, He elected to defect!!.
This is NOT the Army I was in (many years ago).
This is PC in action.
I would like to hear the reasons the Army set him free.
If he gets paid this blood money, the money should be turned over to the families that lost loved ones because of his desertion!!

In 1980 I was a Spec 4 attached to the 10th aviation battalion Fort Lewis Wa. I just got back from leave and needed a haircut badly but I decided to go to the mess hall first (in uniform). I got ten feet from the door and out comes General Stone and his entire staff, it scared me so bad I didn’t salute I just put my head down and and tried to get real thin…I got ten days in CCF for that. That was the ARMY I was in.

I wonder, though, if he could dodge a frag or a reasonable facsimile of one. While that may be tongue and cheek, I wonder who in the real world would hire or associate with a deserting traitor like him. Many will not make his life easy. He better have friends in high places if he is going to survive.

The military “Judge” allows a deserter that caused American Soldiers to be killed and maimed to walk and the US Airforce out of California fails to enter Church Murderer Kelley’s domestic violence charge into the National Criminal Information Center database??
What a mess⬇️

Roger that. The Army works in mysterious ways at times as we both know. During his desertion he was promoted to E-4 and then E-5. He also got to wear about 10 combat stripes for his desertion. No pretrial confinement or anything close to what the average Soldier would have faced. The commands I was in would have found a way to send him to the court martial as an E-1 already. Demotion Board (only ever seen 1) from E-5 to E-4 for incompetence and then some little thing made big for a field grade Art. 15 taking him from E-4 to E-2 and then something real small at the company level for another Art. 15 making him an E-1. And on top of it he would be making up all the deserter/AWOL Bad Time. Every damn day of it like it used to be. He’s got some friends in high places obviously. He just might hit the Deserter Lotto. Sorry I got long winded. Something snagged my tripwire and off I went.

The “friends in high places” is the entire Obama Administration. I imagine the Pentagon pressured the Judge to not give prison time. It would have made things awkward for the U.S. in the world media. Obama exchanges 5 terrorists for Bergdahl and is given a hero’s welcome by the Administration only to be court martialed and jailed later on?? He pleaded guilty to charges that could have resulted in life in prison yet didn’t ask for any type of plea deal? The outcome was predetermined. Thank you for your Honorable service!

Soldier, you are right on target on this one. Perhaps you did better than Columbo might have done figuring it out. No pre trial confinement deal offered up when facing life, absolutely proves the sentence was predetermined. Especially when/because he was going to plead guilty. WOW. What a wake up call that truly is. Not a theory, but the absolute truth you told. Wonder if B.B. knew it, or was he sweating it out? I’m not vindictive, however justice was not served on him. Now we all know why. I thought when B.B. Senior (Weird Beard) was hanging around Obama, something wasn’t right. It wasn’t. Enjoy your holiday coming up soon.

It WAS political UNDER OBUMMER but we have a new sheriff in town, and we all or most of us know how or what he thinks of him!!!
In short he does not deserved even unwashed goat gutts.
/ to mildly put it/

CDG you where 82nd Aiborne right?
I never had the chance to serve, i become a diabetic at age 19.
Wanted to join the air force i had 289 hrs on gliders and in 1984 AF would love to get me comminng from an e european country….

In 1980 I was a Spec 4 attached to the 10th aviation battalion Fort Lewis Wa. I just got back from leave and needed a haircut badly but I decided to go to the mess hall first (in uniform). I got ten feet from the door and out comes General Stone and his entire staff, it scared me so bad I didn’t salute I just put my head down and and tried to get real thin…I got ten days in CCF and 60 days reduction of pay for that. That was the ARMY I was in.

I never agreed with the automatic promotion crap. I remember being a young soldier competing for the E-4 promotion my platoon was given by the commander. Not one hair out of place for weeks. Best years of my life. And an NCO was fully qualified for the promotion BEFORE you were allowed to compete for it. They have weakened a strong Army with this PC BS

Agreed. Promo-boards are a fine tool to use early on. They are used to the hilt later on in a Soldier’s career. BB wasn’t even around for an automatic promotion to E-4 let alone one to E-5. The latter doesn’t exist. How many promo points did he get for being a deserter I wonder? While he attached himself to a Taliban unit, did they put him through PLDC/PNCOC? Would like to know how the E-5 promo came about. It damn sure wasn’t posthumously. I spent a few years in a S-1 section. Seen lots of regulations used and abused to help or hinder. Never would have imagined a thing like BB’s case.